Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-07-28
HAD NO WARMING
Eleven Italian LabOrers Killed. Run
Down By an Express Train on
The Erie Railroad.
Six Others Seriously Injured A Place
Near HOhOkus. n. Y, the Scene Of
the Accident-The Train Men
NCt TO Blame.

HcHoKUs, n. Y, July 21.-At 7:l5 o'clock
this morning a horrible accident occurred
on the Erie railroad at point about
third of a mile above Hohokus, resulting
in the killing of eleven men and the
serious injury of five others. A gang of
forty-two Italian laborers were at work
balasting the tracks when they noticed
the milk train coming up the road from
Hohokus. They Immediately stepped
over to the down track, but in their hurry
failed to notice the Chicago express bear
ing down upon them. Before any one
knew exactly what was happening the
express had ploughed into their midst,
knocking the uufortunates right and left,
killing ten of the number outright and
wounding six others, one so badly that he
died before he reached Paterson, whittier
the wounded were carried as soon as &C
commodations could be secured to convey
them. The express was unable to come
to stop until it reached the Hohokus
station, where it was foxnd that the cow
catcher and step oS the engine was
broken, but no other damage done.
Investigation shows that the train hands
were entirely blameless. The wounded
were not removed until half an hour later,
when a construction train took them to
Paterson. All the station hands who wore
available, as well as some residents in the
vicinity, fastened to the scene where the
comrades of the dead and injured men
were already administering to the wants
of those who were not past needing any
assistance.
HORRIBLE SCENES
Most of the unfortunates had been
hurled down the embankment of the
down track, while some were lying around
between the rails horribly mutilated
Hats, coats and shoes which had been
torn from the victims, were scattered
about, and in some places were little
pools of blood, pieces of human bones,
and ragged strips of flesh. Some had
their legs cut off; others were lying with
hldeoSs gashes in their heads, and some
so horribly mangled as TO be unrecog
nizable.
The killed were Giuseppe Torrio, BIZ
maldo Geneive, Calico Pisagrele, Domi-
nico Stampro, Donoao Damporsa,
Pasnagle Dibiano, Michael Tobio, two
meL named Dominica Saldonella, and one
his shoulder fractured was found sitting
under a bridge, $50 yards from where he
was struck, where he had been carried by
the engine. He was taken with the other
five wounded to the Paterson hospital.
The railroad men have different opin-
ions as to who is to blame for the acct
dent. Some censur Connolly, foreman of
the gang, but he was around the curve at
the tool box and was unable to see the
train, His assistant was with the gang
and some regard him as responsible but
he explains that the suddeness of the
arrival af the trains put all precautions at
naught, as there was no time to warn the
men, and his voice could not have been
/ heard above the noise created by the milk
| train. Moreover, the Chicago express
| was not on time and he had no way of
| knowing of its proximity. The men
were probably as much to blame as Eny-
body. They are insufferably stupid at
times and have to be pulled out of the
way of approaching trains. All the dead
men we're married
WHAT A CONDUCTOR SAW.
| Conductor Ramper, who was on the con
struction train behind the express, states
! that he never saw so horrible a scene. One
unfortunate whose brains were scattered
/ for twenty yards alongthe tracks jumped
up three times after he was thrown aside
! Ly the cowcatcher; and another man
whom he went to lift up by the hand
while he was yet quivering, caught his
wrist in convulsiye death grip from
which he was with difficulty released. He
saw many similar cases. and describes
the shrieks of the wounded and dying az
something awful.
The names of the six wounded men are
as follows: Dominica Scranoux, leg
broken and Commissions about the body
Henry Lops, broken arm and scalI
wounds; Josetfa Fostei, badly cut aEC
bruised about the head; Palermo Tentia
broken leg, Commissions about the body
and internal injuries; Ambrose Niche
Cauda, Commissions about the body, anC
internal injuries. He got up and walked
about after the accident, but afterwarC
suffered so much pain that he was sent Il
the hospital with the Others. The name
of sixth man is believed TO be Maino o
Mqrini. He was so frightfully injure,
about the head and body as to be unrec
onizable. He is dying.